Table 1 Results of demographic data, health status and covariates of older adults in nursing homes
Variables | Category of variables | n (%) |
|---|---|---|
Age (years old) | 60–69 | 112(5.4) |
70–79 | 438(21.2) | |
80–89 | 1293(62.7) | |
≥ 90 | 216(10.5) | |
Gender | Male | 755(36.6) |
Female | 1308(63.4) | |
Institution type | Privately operated | 849(41.2) |
Publicly operated | 1214(58.8) | |
Ethnicity | Han | 2025(98.2) |
Other | 38(1.8) | |
Religion | None | 1779(86.2) |
Have | 282(13.7) | |
Educational background | Primary school and below | 758(36.7) |
Middle school/high school/secondary school | 869(42.1) | |
Junior college/university and over | 428(20.7) | |
Marital status | Married | 640(31.0) |
Other (widowed/divorced) | 1417(68.7) | |
Having children or not | Have | 2001(97.0) |
None | 60(2.9) | |
Length of time of living in nursing homes (year) | ≤ 1 | 504(24.4) |
1–3 | 514(24.9) | |
3–5 | 313(15.2) | |
≥ 5 | 314(15.2) | |
Living condition before admission | Solitude | 634(30.7) |
Living with spouse | 849(41.2) | |
Living with children | 489(23.7) | |
Other | 89(4.3) | |
Room type | Single room | 497(24.1) |
Twin room | 1314(63.7) | |
Dormitory | 236(11.4) | |
Income (yuan/month) | ≤ 1999 | 100(4.8) |
2000–4999 | 1096(53.1) | |
≥ 5000 | 585(28.4) | |
Eyesight | Normal | 1192(57.8) |
Abnormal | 869(42.1) | |
Hearing | Normal | 1526(74.0) |
Abnormal | 531(25.7) | |
Number of diseases | 0 | 248(12.0) |
1–2 | 1265(61.3) | |
≥ 3 | 533(25.8) | |
Sleep status | Normal | 1177(57.1) |
Abnormal | 886(42.9) | |
Skin status | Normal | 1626(78.8) |
Abnormal | 437(21.2) | |
Occurrence of accidents in the past 30 days | None | 1826(88.5) |
Have | 227(11.0) | |
Staffing | Enough | 1037(50.3) |
Relatively enough | 411(19.9) | |
Ordinary | 279(13.5) | |
Relatively inadequate | 220(10.7) | |
Very inadequate | 101(4.9) | |
Pain | None | 1116(54.1) |
Slightly | 702(34.0) | |
Moderate | 192(9.3) | |
Severe | 49(2.4) | |
ADL scoring | Independent | 840(40.7) |
Mildly dependent | 1080(52.4) | |
Moderately/severely dependent | 32(1.6) | |
Depression | None | 1654(80.2) |
Have | 409(19.8) |